Surfing Waves

Hey guys. I've just launched a new site dedicated to listing information from every publicly know surf spot in the world. It will contain pictures, videos, maps, reports, articles... aso of each spot.

I've started by publishing all information I had myself, but there's still hundreds of spots without content. I realise it will take many months to complete it, so I need your help.

Please go there, enjoy it, and if you've got some content you wish to share don't hesitate to contribute!!
<dead link>

Be carefull.

you may be talking about publically known spots but that stil doesn't mean you'll get off free from the people in the area.

just look at the major heck wannasurf gets...

Personally I still think its all part of learing to surf.. you learn and disscover yourself. Too much is provided on a plate now.

i looked on your site and saw some 'lesser known spots' which are on wannasurf as well ,why dont you do somthing diffrent on your site and concentrate on just the well known sites and create a more indepth database on them other than the usual little breif descriptions 'quality over quantaty' if u know what i mean

Now thats a better idea, its almost like a beginer resoure, give them the best on the well known and hopefully educat enough to give them the desire to explor themselves then think for them selves... By doing that it might perhaps bring about greater awareness of surf ettiquete. (sp :p)

If a section on the rules of surfing isnt allready here then it should...

Thanks for your comments. I totally agree!

The website may not currently communicate it well, but on top of my policy in how to run the website is never to disclose any secret spots. I did some research before starting the site and realized what a major problem this was. The internet is swamped with articles and hate-letters from locals in despair after finding their spots mapped out online. Hence I've built the site so that there's a name with a verified email address attached to every piece of contributed material. When publishing information that could contain directions there are warnings about submitting directions to secret spots. This is just the start of what I intend to do to keep secret spots secret. The reason I might still be listing the names of secret spots is that I want locals in the area to be able to use the forum and perhaps share pictures among themselves.

It's still early days for the site and right now anarchy may seem to rule. Yet, I'm overlooking everything that is posted and will try to verify the content. I've got big plans for further extending the functionality and protecting secret spots is on top of this list. I may even decide not to list even the names of the spots (although they're available all over the net) if I can see that the locals are not finding the resource any useful. It may sound stupid, but at some spots you want people to come for a visit (e.g. shark infested, cold and chunky Tasmania in Oz). There will at least be a security measure for accessing secret spot information.

"Quality over quantity" is definitely what I want to rule at WorldSurfSpots.com. I want to provide quality content from well known spots in a region - unlike what many of the other surf spot sites are doing. What's important to me is to provide surfers with a resource that's focused on their particular surf spot and that they can use regularly to communicate with their fellow surfers.

Any ideas on how to improve WorldSurfSpots.com are greatly appreciated!!

I found this on the internet a while ago... I haven't got the source though and am worried about publishing it due to copyright infringements. Does any of you know where it comes from?

RULES OF SURFING

(1) Lowest in priority for waves are poor and mediocre surfers who use leashes to undeserved advantage. They should not have priority for waves regardless of their take-off position.
Beginners and mediocre surfers need to take special precaution not to cause injury to others because of their myopic vision.

(2) The person riding waves has priority over those paddling out. Stay out of the way as best you can. The past-time is called surfing, not
paddling. Paddle completely around the break if necessary and stay out of the impact zone as much as possible.

As long as the surfer riding did not intentionally run the paddler over, it's always the paddler's fault in any collision. An apology is all that's necessary to settle a dispute.
Boards get dinged and broken, that's part of surfing. No financial renumeration should ever be asked for and none given.

(3) Surfers with no leash have priority over those with leashes, regardless of wave position. This priority increases with the degree of difficulty that riding the break leashless presents.

(4) Unquestionably advanced surfers should have priority for the most challenging waves. However it is the responsibility of the advanced
surfers to share and give lesser challenging waves to the lesser ability surfers who observe this rule.

(5) The surfer up and riding has priority over everyone else above exceptions noted.

(6) If you are visiting, share beer, party favors and food with the locals. Locals must accept and be kind to any visitors who do so. Visitors can not take advantage of friendliness on the part of the locals to attempt to catch every good wave. Visitors should always give some deference to locals, don't complain or start fights if someone drops in on you. Just paddle back out and stay stoked!!

Let the local boys see you got some style and they'll be (or should be) happy to see you have a wave. Never insist on forcibly taking the
right of way.

(7) Keep the beach clean. Pick up your trash.

(8) Do not show up at any crowd sensitive beach with your own crowd unless you grew up across the street. Even then, probably not.

(9) Do not publish maps, photos, or detailed descriptions of magical getaway destinations.

(10) Boycott magazines and movies that publish photos, maps, and detailed descriptions of magical getaway destinations.

(11) If you are male, be kind to all female surfers. Surfing is
traditionally for heterosexuals. More Females and less males are needed. They have a beautiful delicate style if you learn to appreciate it..

(12) Party on and search for cosmic awareness. Improve your mind. Bend but don't break.

(13) Be humble but not a wus.

Not sure but rule three is shocking, I know some people still do ride without leashes (ok so there are really good) but having somthing like that in a list is going to make other people think its ok to do so. Its bloody dangerious, bad enough with loggers and their 8ft + leashes that leave the board heading toward your face...

I still believe the best "rules" I've ever seen is on the www.surfline.com website. Under the section marked "surfology", it gives a detailed tome of the rules but goes into deeper detail about why beginners really should think before paddling out at crowded rocky pointbreaks with lots of water moving etc, how to judge from shore if a break is "localised" simply watching the patterns & behaviour of those in the water (and social behaviour in the carpark), the author also suggests ways to surf a localised break without getting hasseled, like ways to deal with the Type-A guy in the lineup if confronted...
I've been surfing for over 30 years and I still refer to this section from time to time. It's interesting and everyone can learn something by reading this well thought out section.
Just my 3 cents worth...
Brent

Sorry, minor error. The section I's referring to above is now under "Bill of Rights & Lefts" at the bottom right of the website and the very bottom marked "more Surfology"

Check it out.
Brent

hey brent,

you know how you always forget to log in ?

At the bottom of the page there is a square box you can tick that logs you in automatically when you visit the site !!!! (its helped me a bit )

im sure someone already pointed it out to him. i think maybe we just have to get used to an unlogged in brent. no worries.

in response to the topic the rules on surfline are very good.

WorldSurfSpots.com wrote:
I found this on the internet a while ago... I haven't got the source though and am worried about publishing it due to copyright infringements. Does any of you know where it comes from?

I think the answer is here.

"ame to me from a long time San Onofre longboard surfer who snipped it from the newsgroup, alt.surfing"